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Title: The Best of a 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul
Subtitle: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit
Author: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
Narrator: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
Format: Abridged
Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-12-05
Publisher: Backlist, LLC, a sub. of Chicken Soup for the Soul
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration
Publisher's Summary:
Chicken Soup for the Soul both riveting and heartwarming. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen have woven another tapestry of timeless tales and inspiring wisdom. This treasury is a tribute to life and humanity, with topics ranging the entire emotional and experiential gamut. The nature of the stories invites you to enjoy Chicken Soup in whatever way you find most comforting: by the spoonful, by the bowl, or the whole pot in one sitting.
Like it's predecessors in the series, this collection invites you to share the powerful experiences of the contributing authors. In so doing, you can derive a deeper meaning from your own experiences and move forward to richer living. In everyone's life there is always room for more love, more wisdom, more inspiration, more shared stories and, of course, more Chicken Soup.
Members Reviews:
Chicken Soup
Great short stories to read before I turn in at night; nothing too stressful or heavy. I rotate five of the chicken soup for the soul books to read at night.
Chispa
I love all the Chicken Soup for the Soul books and have most of them. I didn't think this one was quite as good as some of the others, but worth the read.
Good Book
This is a good book for encouraging yourself or someone else. I ordered this to put in a gift basket.
Chicken Soup for the Soul 5
The book was in mint condition as stated in the description of the book. I would definitely purchase from them again.
A 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul
Too much of a good thing can make it bad. And as with five servings of real chicken soup, a 5th book of "general" Chicken Soup for the Soul makes you more queasy than cured. Like all of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, this one contains a 101 short stories that are meant to inspire.
In this 5th portion, the chapters are titled, "On Love", "On Parents and Parenting", "On Teaching and Learning", "On Death and Dying", "A Matter of Perspective", "Overcoming Obstacles", and "Eclectic Wisdom". There was a lot of variety in the stories as you can see from the chapter titles, but none really stood out. There were even a few I couldn't really see why they were included as there was nothing inspiring about them (like the story of a mom who paddled her daughter at the beach and then marveled how easily kids forgive). It was just kind of rambling without a true sense of purpose to the story.
I didn't find any of the people in the stories especially endearing. Because the stories are so short you don't really expect to get a connection, but even just reading about them I didn't get the usual tears or smiles that I get with some of the other books. I think I got more meaning from the stories that had pets in them, at least they're cute and furry. Or maybe I'm just feeling anti-social and heartless tonight, who knows.
As I said before, there aren't any stand out stories in this book. I just got done reading it and while I remember what happens in a good many of them, none of them really did anything for me. I think they were just trying to get another book out and didn't pay as much attention to the quality of the stories this time around.